Read books online
at our other site:
The Literature Page
|
Quotation Search
To search for quotations, enter a phrase to search for in the quotation, a whole or partial
author name, or both. Also specify the collections to search in below. See the
Search Instructions for details.
- For people to judge a man's worth and his very manhood according to the way he feels about sport, and not to recognize it for the piddly, inconsequential goings on that it really is...
- Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Birds of a Feather, 1993
- By mid-November I always like to have an extra 15 pounds on me.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
- Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles.
- Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Baby Blues, 1994
- One of the things that keeps you from dropping them in the nearest volcano is that you had to work too hard to get them. You had to cry, you had to scream, you had to sweat, you had to cuss out health care officials, and when that's all over with, you'll be willing to put up with a lot more from your kids.
- Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Baby Blues, 1994
- I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
- Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
- There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Mite Makes Right, 1994
- Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
- Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
- Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.
- Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
- George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping?
- Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Bolt from the Blue, 1994
- You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain.
- Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Bolt from the Blue, 1994
|